An education partnership and sponsorship program to create and support a school for vulnerable children and at-risk youth in Uganda.

Several years ago, ﻿Alice Wegoye﻿, a retired school teacher and mother of ten, felt she needed to help Uganda's orphans and children affected by war and extreme poverty. So she turned her house into a dorm, gave up her home and her land, and used her tiny p﻿ension to begin construction of a school in Kigo, Uganda.

﻿In 2008, a few of us, inspired by Alice's dedication and vision, came together and set up the Mtaala Foun﻿﻿dation. Our goal: to help Alice turn her small home into a fully operational school, Awegys Secondary School, providing the best possible education to those whose dreams of att﻿ending school had not been realised due to poverty, conflict or the death of their parents.

Mtaala, run by vol﻿unteers in the US and UK, sends over 95% of its donations directly to Awegys, and over the last ten years not only have student numbers grown, from 5 to more than 100, but so has the school itself.

﻿﻿Thank you

Thank you to all of our donors and volunteers in the US, UK and Uganda who helped make this past year a success.﻿﻿Please enjoy our annual ​ newsletters.​

Mtaala has enabled the following: the construction of new classroom blocks, student dormitories, modern sanitation facilities, a library, a science laboratory and a health clinic; the provision of food and educational supplies for all the students; the hiri﻿ng of more, and better, teachers; and the installation of a well, benefiting not just the school but the whole surrounding community.

﻿Current news

﻿Watch the slide show to see what Mtaala has accomplished over the years at Awegys Secondary School﻿﻿ thanks to the generosity of our donors.